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Yes indeed!!

Would love to go on a seabass trip (I assume pots?) How can I get in touch with you?

Yes the price you pay per pound is cheaper (based on whole weight), but the yield is lower. This leaves the edible portion cost somewhere close to the same. But, new shells are definitely sweeter and easier to work with

Depends on which direction you’re looking from I guess. lol.

Yes, indeed.

Thanks for the comment Rick. As for dead sharks, they were all released quickly and quite lively. Yes that tow had a lot of damaged catch, which serves no one’s purpose, including the vessel. When working soft bottom it was better targeted. Remember everything that comes on board is counted towards quota, thereby making this sustainable (in theory admittedly). Sustainable does not mean perfect. The industry has come a long way after decades of mismanagement.

Hopefully it came across in the video that by catch is counted and is part of management plan. This creates incentive for everyone to reduce by catch. Yes bottom trawling is far less targeted than other methods, but measures are in place to make this a sustainable resource.

Salty thanks for the comment. In the end it all comes down to management of resource. As long as the amount of fish is managed to allow for sustainability, that’s what’s most important in the end. Measures have been taken to meet this goal. These harvest methods are used in Norway and Iceland and they have massive sustainable fisheries, so it’s not the method only but how we manage it.

Agree. It’s harvesting. I’m always looking for vessels to go on, the more harvest methods I can show and discuss the better. Thanks for watching and commenting.

For the record, we need regulation in this industry. Currently there is representation from fisherman government and environmental in the decision making process. In my opinion the biggest issue is making current data more actionable and utilizing resources properly, increasing when available and reducing quickly when necessary. Unfortunate government moves slow and policy is always years behind the data.

His comment was to never have seen 4 in one tow. As discussed, they do catch them from time to time, and the vessel was releasing and tagging them for the Boston Aquarium. But his comment was clearly “never seen 4 in one tow”…..

@thecatchwithjardar3529 he never saw 4 But maybe 5 or 6 etc... Enjoy the rest of 2024 ✌️

I guess there’s many way to interpret any statement, so I can only go with what I saw and what I know of Mark. Either way your goal and mine is the same, to see more fish in the water and have a sustainable fishery. Stay tight I hope you catch some fish!!

@thecatchwithjardar3529 I catch alot of fish on my boat Just not cod🤣 Thx for the video

There are set allowable take for both commercial and recreational fisheries. Neither should be allowed to take whatever they want. Hopefully you picked up from the video that management works but the regulations are not in lock step with reality. Yes there was major over fishing in the past, but to blame harvesters who are working under effective management framework just doesn’t make sense. As the fishery (hopefully) builds everyone will be allowed more fish. Just look to Norway and Iceland and see how well it works and they harvest 100’s of times as much cod as we do all sustainably. Thanks for watching and commenting

Cool. I’ve yet to get a quahog pearl…..

Thanks for commenting John. I feel your pain, regulations are tough. I edited Marks comments on the topic quite a bit, I do plan to make it into its own video. The regulations for New England ground fish are quite archaic IMO the biggest issue is that realtime data is not actionable, causing regulations to be many years behind the science. Also that data deficiency is used to close fisheries. They have the budget, use it, and get the data!! Haddock being closed because the govt didn’t survey is unacceptable.

@thecatchwithjardar3529 same with the gulf of Mexico. They all but killed many fisherman

The gulf is tricky too because much of the quota has been shifted to recreational taking. While recreational use may arguably have a greater economic contribution, it still has put a hurt on many working watermen.

@thecatchwithjardar3529 it doesn't even help the rec guys . They killed commercial shark fishing years ago . Now rec guys catch hell getting a fish in the boat . Given such low allowable quota on other fish that it's pointless for commercial fisherman to even think about targeting them . Gave my buddy a 20lb allowable quoted last year. They are deliberately choking out the commercial fisherman.

@thecatchwithjardar3529 unfortunately I lived it, not 2nd hand information. Have taken many observers out showing them in an outs . Fish numbers, etc. They look but do not go by their own observers and their numbers. They take the information disregarded it make up their own. Not me saying that but words of more than 1 observer

Making a video on this topic shortly. Thanks for commenting!

Thanks Charles glad you enjoyed. Appreciate the comment. We had a really cool trip scheduled a few weeks ago but it required glassy surface conditions and the wind kicked up last minute. Unfortunately this trip won’t happen until next year. Hope to get out again soon to shoot another video, it’s been too long!

I’m glad you worked that out hopefully the video was of some benefit. New shells are incredibly sweet and tender, but the yield is lower. For me as a merchant it’s always a delicate balance when you switch over. This year looks like it’s going to be a little later than the last two years.

Thanks for the comment!!! Bottom trawling is of course a hot button topic. It was my first time out on a bottom trawler and I was very surprised when we came up the sharks. What I was hoping to convey was that 1) management works and 2) management can be quite inefficient. Practice is (in my observation) many years behind the science If you look at the practices in place in the Barents Sea cod fishery shared by Norway and Russia, you’ll find that bottom trawling can be financially viable and both sustainable and low impact. We are getting there too, but our management practices are very complicated.

Yet fish stocks are up year over year. If you want to keyboard warrior on topics you know nothing about, look in seismic blasting for the wind farms. Hundreds of whales, dolphins sea turtles and countless other species, some endangered (north Atlantic right whales) are washing up dead on the beaches up and down the east coast and because it's government and big money donor funded, it is not allowed to be talked about. Yet as a lobsterman, if one washes up near us they rush down, wrap some b.s. rope around it's tail, smother the media with it and then try and shut us down for good. We have even been told that there is no evidence showing one whale has been killed by entanglement in our area but yet we are the heaviest regulated fishery. So hats of to you keyboard naturalist who has probably never seen the ocean, keep fighting the good fight.

Thanks for commenting. I agree they taste great, but the Gabriella Rose doesn’t have permit to keep them and there are strict quotas on harvest. Fortunately we were able to release those 4 sharks quickly they sure were beautiful.

Wash down is especially satisfying.

Yes there’s a lot of frustration between commercial and recreational fishing. Both sides have restrictions, in time they will yield results for higher take on both sides. Thanks for watching and thanks for commenting!!

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Thanks for watching!!!!

I Think sewerage is a problem in the Chesapeake Bay due to the septic tanks draining into it .

Water treatment is a big factor everywhere. Growing area classifications are the result. The seed oysters from the Housatonic require a six month deputation period in approved waters.

We were about 20 miles offshore in 600 fathoms. We were in soft bottom, monk prefer rocky bottom but Mark doesn’t work hard bottom so he can avoid cod.

In case you missed it, this is a managed sustainable fishery. Sustainable does not mean perfect (we ALL wish it were). As Mark said he needs to find areas where there aren’t certain fish so he can observe quota, and even bycatch discards count towards quota. As for cod and fluke, there’s a ton of out there and they are easy to catch. One argument towards recreational catch and keep is that it should be quota based as well and allotted (like the gulf snapper fishery), as to help the proper management.

Seemed pretty open when I was there…………..are you referring to seasonal closures??

Not deep inside Casco Bay in January. I’m hoping to go on a squid dive this spring that may see some teeth.

Sustainable doesn’t mean perfect. Yes bottom trawling has some bycatch mortality. The important thing, which I hope I communicated thru this video, is that anything that comes up gets charged against the quota. The expected effect of this is that harvesters make efforts to avoid bycatch, as it comes straight off the top line. There is also a lot of research going into new trawling methods that put less hardware in the water.

US ground fisheries are sustainable. As mentioned in the video, everything that comes on board is tallied and counts towards the quota. Sustainable doesn’t mean perfect, but it’s the end result that counts. The public wants sustainable wild harvested seafood, and this is what this is.

@@thecatchwithjardar3529 u murdered like 5 sharks. The amount of by catch I saw in that video was absolutely insane.

Thanks for the reply Johnny. The sharks were released alive and were tended to with great haste and care. Mark has tagged and released many sharks for the NE Aquarium. As for bycatch, as we demonstrated, all gets counted towards quota, thereby helping maintain a sustainable fishery.

@@thecatchwithjardar3529 what ever helps you sleep at night

@@johhnyapplesseed9776Calm down. Everybody eats something.

Tell Dan I say hi next time you see him!!!!

@@thecatchwithjardar3529 I will o see him almost every week !!!

These are all custom fabricated, and are usually pretty unique to where they are being used. Designs are vary for different bottom, current, depth etc. most harvesters guard their designs pretty closely. Going to a dock and looking at someone’s dredge is akin to looking at someone’s wife the wrong way!!!

@@thecatchwithjardar3529 many thanks for your feedback! I agree 100% with you regarding the propietary technology of the dredge- provided that I am a threat! However , I am.at the other end of the world, seeking kin individual , to learn from one another! Each dredge is custom built according to the terrain mechanics, depths, bottom type etc, and so one and so forth. Me? Wanna have a hydraulic dredge to work in Patagonia. Any feeds or info will be highly appreciated! We want to do it right. Thanks ...by no means I would look someone else's wife..- great analogu though!! SOS PLEASE! FOR REAL I AM AT THE OTHER SIDE OF THE CONTINENT!.

I’m starting to get the hang of it!!!!

That day 80# in 3 hours work time. 10 min steam out, 3 tows, and 10 minute steam back. They made a nice profit for the day. Today scallops are the largest dollar value fishery in the USA and there is a lot of money being made. Hopefully the point we were trying to make was received, that active management works. Of course there’s always a lag between real time conditions and management, which is very frustrating. Profits will be better when there’s more product and more quota.

When I went on this trip the boat price was $12/lb and the trip boats out of Friendship were coming back with decent trips. I don’t remember exactly but yeah those guys were making some $$$$. While I feel for the inshore guys at times like those you got it hand it to the guys who’ll go offshore in sub freezing temps to strike while the irons hot!!!

Super clean pure protein.

lil seasoning

Thanks for the comment, I love these types of discussions. My statement comes from experience as a fish monger, when thru the 90’s I could only find 20/30 and smaller scallops in the market. Closures and active management have created the boom that we have now. I think one important takeaway is that management is always years, if not a decade, behind reality. Data collection (not a perfect science), data analytics, bureaucratic delays and action take a tremendous amount of time. See the flounder video for some discussion on this.

Thanks @StriperScott!!! We’re so close, only 999,500 to go. Shout and share and it’ll get there. I need to make more content that will drive it also. I’ve got some cool trips lined up but it takes a lot of time!!!! Thanks for the comment.

Look forward to the content. I fish out of seabrook mostly, love to watch you commercial guys go for it. I can't beleieve you hauled in 4 porbeagles that were 6+ feet each!!! Would you be allowed to keep them for personal consumption, or are they closed that time of year?@@thecatchwithjardar3529

F/V Gabriella Rose did not have permit to keep. Fortunately they got returned quickly and looked strong going in. Too bad the radio tagging program was over, it would have been really cool to have tracked them afterward

Never seen 4 porbeagles caught in one net, the smallest was almost 6 feet. Truly remarkable day you guys had!@@thecatchwithjardar3529

Hey thanks for the comment. Where do you dig??? What I found most impactful from our trip with Dan was how he really cared about this environment, and his concern that there really aren’t any young guys coming into the business. Too many people are losing touch with the environment, they’ll talk about what they see in the news but no one actually gets outdoors.

@@thecatchwithjardar3529 down east Maine lots of greed in the industry that’s for sure got to look at conservation expect of things how much you used to get out of that one area I also go sternman as well sad we live in a world nobody wants to work peaceful on the flats

I started as an angler too, and got into the seafood business from my love of fish and seafood. Boats can’t sell directly to the public, they have to sell to a NMFS primary buyer, who is required to maintain buying records. This helps maintain integrity to the reporting system. The boats have to electronically file a trip report. Trying to line up my next boat as we speak!!!!

@@thecatchwithjardar3529 In Canada fishing boats can sell directly to the public as long as they get a special license (which is pretty easy to get). I remember going to British Columbia with my parents when I was much younger and buying a couple dungeness crabs and a few pounds of spot prawns straight from a fisherman at the wharf. I chatted with him for a bit and he showed my father and myself around his boat after he found out my father was an active-duty serviceman in the RCN. (My mother stayed back because of the smell, lol) My father and I purchased a freshly caught whole pink salmon the next day at the same wharf from another fisherman. I've never tasted fresher seafood than that which I had in BC. I look forward to seeing where your next video will take you Jardar!

Watch the full video on the channel feed. This is a sustainable fishery.

​@thecatchwithjardar352 sustainable? You must be brainwashed No need to comment plz